Enhanced Skyrim Factions - The Companions Guild

Enhanced Skyrim Factions

The Companions Guild

By DreamKing Latest Full Version: 0. 3. 8, 18 July 2015 Latest Requirements-Only Version: 0. 1. 1, 13 January 2013

Introduction

Skyrim's Companions guild questline suffers from being too short and too linear; it is possible for a low-level character, and/or one with minimal combat skills, to quickly accend to the highest ranks of this famed guild of warriors. Moreover the questline railroads the player, denying them the opportunity to make several key choices. ESF: Companions is a project that aims to improve this situation in several ways:

1. Increase the number of radiant quests required to advance in the guild, and add skill, level, and time requirements for each of the guild's milestone story quests (status: done). 2. Add new choices and consequences to those milestone quests (status: in-progress, one major new choice added to the scene with Skjor and Aela in the Underforge). 3. Add new radiant and story quests, both during and after the vanilla questline (status: in-progress, one radiant quest added). 4. Miscellaneous other improvements (status: in-progress, many tweaks made, see changelog).

Status

There are two versions of the mod available:

The Requirements Only version simply increases the number of radiant quests required between "story" quests in the guild questline, and adds skill, level, and time requirements as well. These requirements are all configurable via a SkyUI MCM panel, an included bat file, or console commands.

The Full version of the mod has those requirements and also adds new choices and consequences, expanded activity schedules around Jorrvaskr, various tweaks to the Companions NPCs and quests, and new (silent) dialogue, all to enhance the feeling of being a part of this fellowship of warriors.

In general this page describes the Full version of the mod; to use the Requirements Only version, download it and consult the ReadMe file in the download.

Features

New Choices

The events surrounding a promotion that occurs mid-questline have been significantly overhauled, with a key new choice available to the player during a discussion with Skjor and Aela in the Underforge.

Requirements and Prerequisites

The requirements can be customized through an included SkyUI MCM system. By default the requirements are:

Before Your Trial in "Proving Honor" (Quest C01) - One defensive combat skill--Light or Heavy Armor, or Block--at least 30 - One weapon skill--One-Handed